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A young woman, in remission from cancer, was granted her dream to photograph the Southern Lights recently.

Rebecca Edwards was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2012. After gruelling years fighting the illness the 17-year-old Aucklander has now been in remission for 18 months.

It's no secret that Edwards is an avid photographer. She was a natural choice when award-winning photographer Mark Gee asked Make a Wish if they could find someone to participate in his workshop to photograph the shimmering-green Aurora Australis.

Edwards' family and Gee kept it a secret for months. He flew to Auckland for a studio shoot Edwards was photographing in February to surprise her.

"She had no idea I was coming, I just turned up and walked into the party. I wanted to take her on a shoot with me.

"I could tell she was happy, she had to put her camera down."

On March 23 Edwards took off with a crew of photographers on board an Air New Zealand Boeing 767 from Dunedin. Over the next seven hours they would fly towards the Antarctic Circle to photograph the Southern Lights from the sky. They got back, exhausted, around 5am.

The Southern Lights, or Aurora Australis, from 66 degrees South, 37,000ft over the Antarctic Circle.

The Southern Lights, or Aurora Australis, from 66 degrees South, 37,000ft over the Antarctic Circle.